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By BOB BUNNELL
Arundel Newspaper* Staff Adoption of a mini-budget and redistricting—tasks particularly susceptible to excesses in political partisanship—appear to be the major issues facing the Virginia General Assembly as it prepares to convene Jan. 14 in Richmond.
The 140 legislators will divide approximately $180 million in anticipated state revenues beyond the $11.7 billion appropriated in 1980 during the first year of the
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